(Chapter 13)
"Huh?"
Sung Jin-Woo was confused by this, even though the guns won't work in the most of monsters, but it can still buy time for the Hunters to come to become reinforcement for the military that were deployed first to the dungeon breaks.
"I know what you're thinking, but it's not that the guns aren't working in the creatures there, but that place forbids it, so any guns will be reduced into a blunt weapon instead."
"... That's a first time hearing something like that..."
"I know right? But if you think about this, it won't be called God's Sanctuary if the guns are working in the first place, right?"
"... You got a point there, Hyung-nim... So, what's next?"
"Well, since this is collaboration. Why won't you switch this watcher you sent to me with a stronger one? I'll try to see if your shadow summon can be sent in that place while hiding in my shadow, then if it's possible can you lend me one? I want to try something when I get there."
Shyrveen said then pointed to his own shadow while tilting his head.
Which made Sung Jin-Woo embarrassed and thinking about how Shyrveen can know about it.
"That's..."
"Of course I will give you something that I have that I'm sure you will get interested in. Deal?"
But Shyrveen ignored the questioning stare of Sung Jin-Woo and stated confidently about the bomb he will drop in any minutes, then stretches out his right hand to Sung Jin-Woo to seal the deal.
"... Deal."
Sung Jin-Woo decided to agree after a couple of seconds and grabs Shyrveen's hand and shook it.
Then both men went to Shyrveen's apartment in less than three minutes.
Sung Jin-Woo check the apartment and realize that it's only one room that consists of everything except for the comfort room, of course.
"Take a seat first while I fetch what I'm talking about."
Shyrveen said as he went straight to the fridge and pulls out a piece of meat that is raw and plates and other sauce, and put them down on the table in front of Sung Jin-Woo.
"Eh? No, no, no. I'm not hungry, Hyung-."
"Shut up and eat and you will see."
Sung Jin-Woo is confused about why Shyrveen was being rude towards him now and can only scratch his head and pick one piece of meat and dip it with the sauce to his liking before putting it on his mouth.
Chewing a bit the meat inside his mouth, he can't explain whats the taste but it wasn't that bad with the sauce, but the moment he gulped it down straight to his stomach. He was shocked after hearing the voice inside of his mind saying.
'Azure-Tailed Eagle flesh is eaten. Two Ordinary Geno Points gained.'
"Huh? What's that!?"
Sung Jin-Woo panic a bit after hearing a deep voice and summoned his dagger. He can't distinguish if it's from a man or a from a robot, but he can understand what it's saying.
"You're amusing me, is it really that shocking to hear that voice?"
But continued after seeing Sung Jin-Woo went into a stunned state after being shocked.
"Ignore my blubbering, just think the word 'status' in your mind, and something will sink to your knowledge about yourself... Or not... Seeing you staring like that, does this power of yours recognized this?"
In different fabric of space.
The person was disturbed from his sleep after the system alerted him to read the content of what it found out in the mortal world, Earth.
"... Huh? The System found a way to let Sung Jin-Woo get stronger faster?... And it's related to the unknown universe shard that I found, indicating to that strange place called 'God's First Sanctuary'?... Didn't you hit two stones at once? Achieving two missions at the same time..."
After a few seconds of deciding, the person told the one, who/what is the administrator under the system, to initiate the quest to be issued for Sung Jin-Woo.
But unbeknown to the person, there's one more thing that the administrator found out but only hide it away from him...
Back to the world, Earth.
Sung Jin-Woo awakened from his stunned state by the doubtful question of Shyrveen, after he followed the instruction given by him and only to trigger something in his system.
[! Alarm:
The system recognized a piece of Otherworldly Thing (Meat) that has been ingested by the "Player".
The system recognized a piece of Otherworldly Thing (System) that has been activated by the "Player".]
[! Quest:
The !@#$%^&* Universe
Second Phase: Find the "One"
Phase: First
Requirement: Shard of the !@#$%^&* Universe (Obtained; Complete)
Phase: Second
Requirement: The system is encouraging you to find the "One" for further information. Please use the Party System to invite the "One" for the system to examine the person for further data acquiring to complete the Shard of the !@#$%^&* Universe. (Incomplete)
Phase: Third
Requirement: Please find a way for how to get into the God's First Sanctuary with the "One" without leaving Earth. (Incomplete)
Phase: Fourth
Requirement: See a creature that resides in God's First Sanctuary. (Complete)
Phase: Fifth
Requirement: Obtain Geno Points. (Complete)
Note: Please complete all phases for the quest to be complete within 30 days. Or else, your heart will stop in 0:02 seconds after the countdown is finished: 29D, 23H, 23M, 42S
Rewards: Incomplete Access to God's First Sanctuary in the !@#$%^&* Universe.]
[! Alert:
Geno Points has been activated.
Ordinary Geno Points: 2
!@#$%^&*: 0
!@#$%^&*: 0
!@#$%^&*: 0]
[! Alert:
God's First Sanctuary Index has been opened for the "Player" to view.
Ordinary creature: Azure-Tailed Eagle...
Note: The system is encouraging you to go into the God's First Sanctuary for the !@#$%^&* Universe data completion.]
'Huh? Wait, wait, wait, System! Since when I got this shard of the unknown universe!?'
Sung Jin-Woo was overwhelmed by system windows that popping up too fast and consecutively, but only to be answered by nothing. He was ignored again and decided to look at Shyrveen face while thinking about the sudden Quest of the system and these Geno Points.
"... Hyung-nim..."
"What? About the Geno Points? Well, there's no harm for you to know about it, I think? This is based on the person who helped when I was sent out to that place so listen well..."
Shyrveen asked but only to recognized the questioning stare again and thought and guessed about the thing related to God's Sanctuary is all good and fine, and repeated to Sung Jin-Woo what Han Sen told him that day and explained to him every time a question arises.
But the phone of Sung Jin-Woo rang and it's his mother asking for his whereabouts only to say that he was in the house of a friend having a sleepover, and after he ends the call. He summoned two High Orc Shadows to protect his mother and the apartment.
Then the two men are talking to each other for the past three hours before Sung Jin-Woo was satisfied.
"... Jin-Woo..."
But only to be confused by the opened palm of Shyrveen to him with matching hooking gesture. But he is so confused by it and stared back to Shyrveen asking what did he mean?
"Potion..."
Shyrveen grins and said a very simple one word to Sung Jin-Woo who facepalmed after realizing what he means...
"Hyung-nim... Do weapons are fine? It seems that potion is not tradable though."
"... Then invite me, maybe that will access the trade."
Shyrveen's eyes get slimmer after his grin switches to a wide smile.
Sung Jin-Woo can only scratch his cheeks and complaints.
"How the hell you can know what's my power, or accurately, what I have?..."
"Gamers are awesome..."
Only to be replied back by a single phrase that he can't deny even today, in this era of Dungeons and Monsters.
"Ahh... Aigoo... Do you always ripping off your friends?"
"Oh, don't get me wrong, we're not friends in this exact time... We're business partners."
"..."
Which, Sung Jin-Woo can only sigh about it, and tried to decline again tactically, but was interrupted first by Shyrveen.
"Experiences..."
And Sung Jin-Woo can see how still wide that smile on Shyrveen's face.
'That's not a happy smile, that's a scheming smile... How he can read my mind? I thought he lost his emotions?"
"Acting..."
"..."
"..."
"Fine! Party Invite: Shyrveen Yñiguez..."
Sung Jin-Woo surrender and invited him and completed his second phase in his quest and jumped into the third phase.
Then both of them checked Shyrveen's Status. Except that Sung Jin-Woo can see both the Status Windows, his and Shyrveen's but that's not the case for Shyrveen to Sung Jin-Woo's Status Window.
[! Status (Temporary)
Note: Please be advised that this Status Window will be gone once you're out of the party.
Name: Shyrveen Yñiguez
Level: 7 (Error)
Job: None
Fatigue: 0
Title: The !@#$%^&* Universe's One
HP: 5200 / 5200 (Error)
MP: 7800 / 7800 (Error)
Strength: 23 (Error)
Vitality: 52 (Error)
Agility: 29 (Error)
Intelligence: 78 (Error)
Sense: 101 (Error)
Remaining Points: 15]
"So, you have this thing all this time... Well, you're too lucky to be given like this. This is a great assistant to notify you of how much improvement you're having in every hour, every minute, and every second... But does your system have a discrimination personality?... What 'Error'? And that's too many of them!... Can I shatter this window just for once, Jin-Woo?"
"... I don't know and you can't, Hyung-nim. Even I, have the urges a long time ago to do that too, but you're free to try so..."
Sung Jin-Woo sighed while looking at Shyrveen's status.
'What's more? He even doesn't know that when I got the system, every stats were in the exact number "10"... How broken this Hyung's stats could be?... And this is more like an insult to my hard works before I met the system...'
And with the invitation to the party, the potions that can't be given to the others were accessible now through the trading system with party members, those potions were payment for extra information about God's Sanctuary.
For Shyrveenm, seeing the system will really feel like he won a jackpot even if it's temporary. But he can't still do so, so for Sung Jin-Woo's perspective, it seems like, for Shyrveen, this is already a normal occurrence to him.
"And so, you're telling me that this is your item to trade with the service of my shadow soldier, Hyung-nim."
"Not as simple as that, since your summons can understand human speech. I want you to order it to listen to me too, of course, if the summon will be included in the time when I'll be pulled back to that place though."
"... You're trying... Well, you have a point there..."
'I can't do anything for now since the system already gave me the quest with that kind of reward... Isn't it telling me indirectly that I can't go there without him?... Pshh...'
"Don't feel so down, the Geno Points are permanent, if you compare that to the contracted shadow summon of yours, isn't that a bit under to my side? Right?"
Shyrveen continues to rip off and convince Sung Jin-Woo with the things that he can't argue with.
"Alright, alright. I'll accept the deal..."
Sung Jin-Woo can't do anything unless he does the hard way, but that will only destroy the friendship that has been established between the two weirdos.
After their private meeting was adjourned.
Two days later.
The raid to the Jeju Island was finally finished, the land reclamation and rebuilding the island back to where it was before, was officially started but only after doing the memorial service for the victims inside that island, to mourn those unfortunates from the start of the dungeon break till to the last victim of the raid.
But as expectation of the crowd as humans, move on is necessary to get stronger. But of course not for all people in the country, there is still part of the population that is more concerned with Sung Jin-Woo's official raid to the Jeju Island Mission after becoming an S-Rank...
But at the same time.
Shyrveen already arrived in God's Sanctuary for the third time...
With more preparations, compared from his past two deployments...